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I was watching Dr Phil show, he pointed out that to feel bad because of your ex is just like giving your power away. FEELCrying is healthy. Have you ever held back your tears or anger and gotten a sore throat or a cold a week later? Some scientific evidence holds that crying prevents such illnesses. Crying is cleansing, yelling is cathartic. Do it on the phone late at night with a good friend until the anxiety, fear, frustration, cycling, and pain exhausts you. Do it to the saddest song you own. Do it til you drop if you have to.
LAUGHBesides crying, stomping your feet, sighing, and eating certain foods, laughing (yeah, right) is scientifically proven relief for pain. Rent a stack of Adam Sandler or Chris Farley or Ellen DeGeneres videos. Watch sitcoms. Read Woody Allen or Bill Cosby or Erma Bombeck or David Sedaris. Call up the craziest friend you know and take him or her out for lunch and laughs.
LEARNKnow that people come into our lives to teach us what we need to learn. Know that they leave when the lessons are over. Or, if you don't believe that, know that, as the brilliant psychiatrist, David Viscott, once said, "The failure of a relationship is not the failure of a person." It may feel like it. It may feel like you could have should have would have done things differently and the leaving lover would never have left. Let it feel that way. But let the reality slowly sink in that what's more important now is what you have learned from the beauty and the bruises. |